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CAPRI AT THE SUNSET
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CAPRI AT THE SUNSET:
DURATION: | 5 hours | |
PRICE: |
Euros 1200 THIS IS A PRIVATE DAY TOUR WITH A PRICE NOT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAVELLING IN YOUR PARTY! Max 8 Participants |
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| AVAILABILITY: | All-year-round | |
| English-speaking sailor at your disposal for 5 hours Motorboat (with fuel included) for 5 hours | |
Itinerary Details are listed below:
TOUR SCHEDULE OF CAPRI AT THE SUNSET
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| Meeting with the skipper and his motorboat at the harbour in Sorrento |
| Transfer to Capri |
| Capri visit by boat and bathe outside Faraglioni rocks |
| Free time to visit the island |
| Optional booking at the Restaurant “La Canzone del mare” – not included |
| Back to the harbour of Sorrento |
Be ready to spend a romantic afternoon in the Island of Capri.
An expert skipper, with a motorboat ‘Tornado 38’, will wait for You at the harbour of Sorrento – at 5 p.m. – for drive you to this magic island, even more enchanted for the sunset light. You will have the possibility of circumnavigate the island, at the discovery of natural cave and small creek and , if you desire, you can swim to the famous ‘Blue Grotto’. A stop will not be missed at the Faraglioni rocks, three blocks of rock which have survived coastal landslides and high more than hundred metres, for a bathe in the crystalline water around the island.
In your free time you can visit Capri’s land: the famous ‘Piazzetta’, the crowded small street or the exclusive shops.
On request, is possible to book the dinner in the exclusive Restaurant “La Canzone del Mare”, a place that embodies the essence of Capri, as depicted in myth and fable old and new.
Follows the back to Sorrento’s harbour.
TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT THIS MOTORBOAT
SHIPYARD |
TORNADO |
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MODEL |
TORNADO 38 |
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LENGTH | 11,40 mt - |
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ENGINE |
VOLVO PENTA |
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POWER |
2X231Hp |
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CONSUMPTION |
lt 70/h |
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SPEED |
30 KNOTS |
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CAPACITY |
MAX 8 PASSENGERS |
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THIS TOUR WILL OPERATE RAIN OR SHINE, SO BE PREPARED FOR ANY WEATHER CONDITIONS.
HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
A painting in the entrance, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples, of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Jupiter and Leda, gives the house its name. This is one of the rare examples in Pompeii of a house with a Corinthian atrium, where the atrium with a central impluvium is surrounded by columns, in this case twelve columns in tufo (the other two alternatives were the Tuscan atrium without columns and the tetrastyle atrium with four columns at the corners of the impluvium). Wall paintings with pictures of mythological subjects were frescoed on the walls of the rooms on either side of the tablinum. Most of them have been detached and are now in the Archaeo ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 4, 5, 4) Ingredients:
- 1 kg firm ripe apricots or nectarines
- 200 ml white wine
- 250 ml Passum
- peppermint tea bag (portion for one cup)
- ground pepper
- Liquamen or salt
- cornstarch
- a little bit of vinegar
- honey
Instructions:
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Wash, cut and stone apricots. Put them with a little cold water in a pan.
Pulverize ground pepper and dried mint (that's where the tea bag comes handy),
add Liquamen or salt, honey, Passum, wine and vinegar. Pour into the pan with a
little oil. Cook approximately 20 minu ... continue
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.